Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit!
Monday
23rd January
2023
COLIN MACKERRAS | On 22 January 2023, we celebrate the Chinese New Year, moving from the Year of…
China
Discussions about Pacific aid need to go beyond the instrumental and local voices must be heard
Tuesday
24th January
2023
HANNAH MCNICOL | After signing a security deal with China in April and a $100 million…
Who wins in the US, China climate arms race
Friday
4th November
2022
WESLEY MORGAN | This year’s COP27 UN climate summit is being held amid heightened geopolitical competition. Growing rivalry…
Geostrategic competition is intensifying in the Pacific
Thursday
1st October
2020
A more powerful China is relentlessly contesting the maritime security order in the Pacific. Dr Wesley Morgan shares his insights.
Duelling diplomacy over Southeast Asia’s most important river
Wednesday
21st October
2020
Despite climate change and the cost hydropower dams, Mekong River nations will find it difficult to turn away from China.
Managing a revisionist China
Wednesday
17th August
2016
MICHAEL HEAZLE | In the wake of China’s ongoing attempts to claim maritime rights over practically the whole of…
Don’t give up on the US in Asia just yet
Thursday
17th November
2016
MICHAEL HEAZLE | Contrary to Hugh White’s argument that we’re better off appeasing China than risk going to war…
The unacceptable dangers of accepting a nuclear North Korea
Friday
25th August
2017
MICHAEL HEAZLE | The crisis on the Korean Peninsula has for the first time introduced an element of confusion…
It’s dangerous to indulge Kim Jong-un
Sunday
17th September
2017
MICHAEL HEAZLE AND ANDREW O’NEIL | North Korea’s latest missile test is part of a broader strategy to showcase…
Boosting maritime law enforcement in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea
Tuesday
8th February
2022
MICHAEL HEAZLE | Five and a half years on from the international arbitral tribunal’s rejection of China’s expansive…